Thorium Dicarbide

The fuel for the Peach Bottom reactor consisted of a uranium-thorium dicarbide kernel, overcoated with pyrolytic carbon and silicon carbide which were dispersed in carbon compacts (see Section 5), and encased in graphite sleeves [37]. There were 804 fuel elements oriented vertically in the reactor core. Helium coolant flowed upward through the tricusp-shaped coolant channels between the fuel elements. A small helium purge stream was diverted through the top of each element and flowed downward through the element to purge any fission products leaking from the fuel compacts to the helium purification system. The Peach... 

H.H.Franck et al, ZAnorgChem 232,109 (1937) CA 31,5289 4)M.A.Bredig, JPhys Chem 46,816,818(1942) CA 37,1918(1943) Thorium Dicarbide, THC, solid, d 8.96 at 18°. Was prepd by Moissan Etard on heating in an electric furnace a mixt of powdered thorium oxide and sugar-charcoal made into a paste with turpentine. Other methods of prepn are given in Ref 3 Refs l)Beil 1, 914I 2)H.Moissan ... 

Thallous Azidodithiocarbonate A637-L Thallous-Thallic Azide A623-R Thermonuclear or Fusion Bomb. See under Atomic Bomb A499-L Thorium Dicarbide A82-R Tin Azide A624-L Titanium Carbide A82-R Titanous Chloride Method for Determination of Nitrobenzene in Aniline A415-R TNT Recovery from Scrap Amatol A161-L Toluidine. See under Aminotoluenes A265-R... 

Tetraamminelithium dihydrogenphosphide, 4590 Thorium dicarbide, 1023 Titanium carbide, 0558 Trimercury tetraphosphide, 4611 Tungsten carbide, 0560 Uranium carbide, 0559 Uranium dicarbide, 1024 Zinc phosphide, 4870 Zirconium dicarbide, 1025 METAL ACETYLIDES N-METAL DERIVATIVES METAL HYDRIDES METAL OXIDES METAL SULFIDES NITRIDES... 

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